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**A thrilling gothic debut • The untimely death of a student at a girls’ boarding school marks the first in a haunting series of escalating supernatural events, and uncovers buried truths of teenage repression, queer desire, and the everyday horror of coming of age."A truly impeccable novel.” —Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea"This book destroyed me.” —Tamsyn Muir, author of Gideon ... Read more

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**A thrilling gothic debut • The untimely death of a student at a girls’ boarding school marks the first in a haunting series of escalating supernatural events, and uncovers buried truths of teenage repression, queer desire, and the everyday horror of coming of age."A truly impeccable novel.” —Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea"This book destroyed me.” —Tamsyn Muir, author of Gideon
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Grand Ambition

Paul Keating's global vision for Australia

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Written with never-before-seen documents from Paul Keating’s archive and drawing on long conversations and interviews with him over many years, this book explores the ambitions for Australia and its place in the world that guided Keating: arguably the last Prime Minister with a compelling long-term vision for the country.As Australia stands on the edge of the greatest reappraisal of its strategic ... Read more

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Written with never-before-seen documents from Paul Keating’s archive and drawing on long conversations and interviews with him over many years, this book explores the ambitions for Australia and its place in the world that guided Keating: arguably the last Prime Minister with a compelling long-term vision for the country.As Australia stands on the edge of the greatest reappraisal of its strategic
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The Perfection Trap

Embracing the Power of Good Enough

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“Offers a hopeful beacon and a steady path for anyone struggling to find their footing in a world of impossible standards.” —Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Drive and The Power of RegretIn the tradition of Brené Brown’s bestseller The Gifts of Imperfection, this illuminating book by an acclaimed professor at the London School of Economics explores how the pursuit of ... Read more

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Ignorance, Dust and Disease

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Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making

More Stories and Secrets from Agatha Christie's Notebooks

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John Curran reveals the secrets of the world’s greatestmystery writer in Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making, the fascinating follow up to Agatha Christie’s SecretNotebooks featuring moreinsight into Christie’s captivating life story and a new windfall ofChristie’s unpublished work—including letters, archival papers, and a keenly incisive analysis of Christie’s last, unfinished novel.For readers ... Read more

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I Know Who You Were

Everyone has a past. . . yours is coming to kill you

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Deadlock

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Charlie Petty is a man known for having ice water in this veins. He never backs down and is never shaken but unfortunately stirred up into the wrong crowd. As a degenerate gambler, his luck has run out and his debt has now come due.Charlie is offered a chance to clear his tab: simply stay alone on a ship overnight to prove to its owner and potential crew that it's not cursed nor haunted. Never ... Read more

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Charlie Petty is a man known for having ice water in this veins. He never backs down and is never shaken but unfortunately stirred up into the wrong crowd. As a degenerate gambler, his luck has run out and his debt has now come due.Charlie is offered a chance to clear his tab: simply stay alone on a ship overnight to prove to its owner and potential crew that it's not cursed nor haunted. Never
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K2: Triumph And Tragedy

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K2 is the second highest mountain in the world, at 8611 metres only a couple of hundred metres lower than Everest. It is one of the most unrelenting and testing of the worlds 8000-metre peaks.Jim Curran came to K2 as a climbing cameraman with an unsuccessful British expedition, but stayed on through the climbing season. This is his account of the dramatic events of that summer, a story of ... Read more

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K2 is the second highest mountain in the world, at 8611 metres only a couple of hundred metres lower than Everest. It is one of the most unrelenting and testing of the worlds 8000-metre peaks.Jim Curran came to K2 as a climbing cameraman with an unsuccessful British expedition, but stayed on through the climbing season. This is his account of the dramatic events of that summer, a story of
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The Murder Game

Play, Puzzles and The Golden Age

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From The Murder of Roger Ackroyd to Magpie Murders, and related diversions including cryptic crosswords and Cain’s Jawbone, The Murder Game examines the games authors played with their readers and the importance of puzzles in Golden Age whodunits.With books flourishing in the 1920s and ’30s like never before, no genre was more innovative or popular than detective fiction. It was an era that saw ... Read more

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Modern Catholic Social Teaching

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by Kenneth R. Himes, John R. Donahue, Stephen J. Pope, Richard R. Gaillardetz, Michael J. Schuck, Thomas A. Shannon, Christine Firer Hinze, John P. Langan, Marvin L. Mich, Drew Christiansen0, Leslie Griffin1, David Hollenbach2, Allan Figueroa Deck3, Christine E. Gudorf4, Lisa Sowle Cahill5, Patricia A. Lamoureux6, Charles E. Curran7, Daniel K. Finn8, Meghan J. Clark9, Christiana Zenner Peppard0, Todd D. Whitmore1, John A. Coleman2 ...

Including contributions from twenty-two leading moral theologians, this volume is the most thorough assessment of modern Roman Catholic social teaching available. In addition to interrogations of the major documents, it provides insight into the biblical and philosophical foundations of Catholic social teaching, addresses the doctrinal issues that arise in such a context, and explores the social ... Read more

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Including contributions from twenty-two leading moral theologians, this volume is the most thorough assessment of modern Roman Catholic social teaching available. In addition to interrogations of the major documents, it provides insight into the biblical and philosophical foundations of Catholic social teaching, addresses the doctrinal issues that arise in such a context, and explores the social
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Canoe Trip

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Each year Dave Curran travels alone by canoe into the Maine wilderness. He's paddled the Seboeis, the Allagash and the Moose. Despite the foolhardiness of such an adventure, he prefers to go alone. It's easier to plan, and going alone he's more focused, less distracted. He goes for the challenge, battling weather, bears, black flies, mosquitoes, getting lost. He goes for the scenery, the wildness, ... Read more

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Each year Dave Curran travels alone by canoe into the Maine wilderness. He's paddled the Seboeis, the Allagash and the Moose. Despite the foolhardiness of such an adventure, he prefers to go alone. It's easier to plan, and going alone he's more focused, less distracted. He goes for the challenge, battling weather, bears, black flies, mosquitoes, getting lost. He goes for the scenery, the wildness,
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A campus novel with teeth: a dark love story between a graduate student at a prestigious but failing university, and the crisis manager hired by the college--who happens to be a centuries-old vampire set on draining the institution of its lifeblood.Laura Wyck is struggling through an English PhD when her university announces drastic plans for budget cuts. Everything she loves is imperiled: the ... Read more

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A campus novel with teeth: a dark love story between a graduate student at a prestigious but failing university, and the crisis manager hired by the college--who happens to be a centuries-old vampire set on draining the institution of its lifeblood.Laura Wyck is struggling through an English PhD when her university announces drastic plans for budget cuts. Everything she loves is imperiled: the
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